Nurse Keith's Digital Doorway

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

This past summer, I bought myself a Kindle, mostly because I'm tired of trying to get rid of the books that pile up around the house. Books are heavy to cart around, aren't they? I've found that I can really dig through a lot of books using my Kindle, and the variety of books on offer makes my reading list pretty varied and fun.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Does it improve outcomes that patients, caregivers, and clinicians care about? hint: 80% can be done in advance by patients or caregivers) Why is it that some oncologists are resistant to conducting a geriatric assessment, yet have no problem ordering tests that cost thousands of dollars? The caregiver has access to these tools.

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Home Care Pulse

DECEMBER 6, 2022

And then the big one, which is a big focus, is caregiving and, you know, finding those caregivers. And so the likelihood that some random caregiver that has no idea who you are that is gonna find and see your we’re hiring post is not an ideal strategy. How can we sell caregiving more?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

That doesn’t really do much, but we’re not willing to do that for caregiver support. So, focusing on caregiver support, getting not the expensive stuff in people’s house, but the things that matter most, like grab bars for those who need it. Like us, subscribe to us on your podcast feed.

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GeriPal

APRIL 28, 2022

However if you want to take a deeper dive, check out his website “ The Ink Vessel ” or his amazing twitter feed which has a lot of his work in it. She has a book out. She also has a book out, shout out those folks. And this caregiver saying, “I don’t know how much longer I can do this. Transcript.

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Living With Hospice

JULY 19, 2021

In this episode of Living With Hospice, Mitch addresses the many facets of 'closing the books' at the end of our lives, including practical planning, reviewing the bucket list and the often uncomfortable topic of saying goodbye. Also part of closing the books, for someone who's dying, is to say goodbye. It can turn into a hot mess!

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Living With Hospice

AUGUST 26, 2020

Every once in while, we discover that a dear friend or family member is cast into the role of being a caregiver for someone who is in an end of life situation. In this episode, Mitch Ware explains the importance of helping out our caregiver friends, and offers several ways to do so tactfully. " So how can you help a caregiver?

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Home Care Pulse

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

You gotta take all this book, learning that you’ve gotten at school and you’ve gotta put it to use in the real world, in acute care, in the hospital setting in order to really hone your skills. And I knew that the training for the caregiver’s aids and CNAs would be what suffered. Remember this is ancient history.

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Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

JANUARY 1, 2023

The following is a true nursing home experience that my hospice patient shared with me about an unusual trip she said she had taken the day before I visited her: (Excerpt from my book Becoming Dead Right: A Hospice Volunteer in Urban Nursing Homes ) “What did you do today?” I asked Rose after feeding her. “Me? Hey, that’s great.

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Hospice and Nursing Homes Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2021

They take pride in the roles they play as visiting caregivers who enrich lives. My book, Becoming Dead Right: A Hospice Volunteer in Urban Nursing Homes , includes a chapter on intergenerational partnerships between schools and nursing homes. Dementia is understood with relevance and meaning.

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Living With Hospice

JULY 5, 2020

Friends at work, friends, school neighbors, people from the church, even the book club. Everybody, everybody starts on that emotional roller coaster whether they realize it or not, I mean friends at work, friends, school neighbors, people from the church or the book club. Could I have done something more to be a better caregiver?

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Living With Hospice

JANUARY 30, 2021

As I've been both a caregiver and a volunteer for hospice. For many years, I've seen hospice and end of life care from the patient's perspective, from the caregivers perspective. And of course, we've been bombarded by movies and books and all sorts of things. He goes, "Mitch, we get to feed it crickets and stuff.

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GeriPal

JANUARY 5, 2023

To examine how clinicians might act in the face of such bans, we turn to Lori Freedman, who wrote a book about clinicians (primarily Ob-Gyn’s) who work in Catholic Hospitals. Would such ethical guidelines foster or feed suspicion of the motivations of bioethics? . We could have talked for hours. It’s bigger. AlexSmithMD. Right, Lori?

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